I have recently started learning java, can anyone recommend a good book or website?
Its ok so far can just see myself getting stuck in the next few weeks.

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Mark

 

Try Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java

 

Ive got

Java gently,
Software Engineering in Java
and getting deeper into it.

Algorithms and data structures in Java.

If you need excercise etc i can point you to a good few.

Si

 

Java in a nutshell is a good one

Dunk
(Not a boffin)

 

I read the Linux version of that, didnt like it

 

Ivor Hortons, Begining Java, Wrox Press:
http://www.wrox.com/books/1861000278.htm
This book is recommended by SunEd on their Java Courses and is very good.

I also second the recommendation for Bruce Eckels thinking in Java.

As far as websites go probably one of the best apart form the tutorials/examples on java.sun.com is the java ranch.

http://java.sun.com
http://www.javaranch.com

HTH

Michael

 

Cheers for all your help! Sorry DJ Dunk im sure none of you are boffins

 

Ignore super_si's comments above, he doesn't seem to appreciate that he's read a different book, by a different author, on a different subject

You should immediately buy Java In A Nutshell (everyone I teach gets a copy) and it will be well thumbed within a week.

Next, buy the Java Cookbook. Lots of the "recipes" are good, but it's more useful when you use it to look at a solution to something like what you're trying to do, then extrapolate your own answer. Of course, that pre-supposes that you actually want to learn how to do things, rather than just blindly copy some pre-existing solution without understanding what it actually does

Avoid Java Examples In A Nutshell. I sent it back to Amazon for a refund as it was that bad

 

Dont ignore me :P

I had to learn Java last year mate. My Uni recommended

Java Gently, Third Ed. 0-201-71050-1
Developing Java Sofware 2nd Ed,0-0471-60696-
Data Structures & Problem Solving using Java, 2nd Ed, 0-201-748352

also the below links are to my Uni programs and resourses

Si
Intro to Java programing
Algorithms n data structures in java

Hope it helps

Si

 

I was referring to your associative denunciation of Java In A Nutshell having read (and disliked) Linux In A Nutshell

I know. Some of your coursework was written by me, as I recall.

[Edited by stu200 - 10/30/2002 1:06:27 AM]

 

sure?I sat and figured it all out eventually

Well done me

[Edited by super_si - 10/30/2002 8:10:10 AM]

 

Another recommendation for the 'in a nutshell' book. I tend to refer to mine as often as the package etc pages on java.sun.com

The 'in a nutshell' book I have, IIRC, is the second edition (anyway, it's for JDK 1.3) - I'd suggest you try and get an edition for the 1.4 JDK, otherwise you'll have to check everything in the class reference guide of the book against that on the web, in case it's changed.

Den